Word: files
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another event in London's theatrical week was the second birthday of Arsenic and Old Lace, which Producer Firth Shephard celebrated by repeating his first-night trick: at the final curtain, a slew of London's topnotch comedians (Jack Buchanan, Will Hay, et al.) file onstage to impersonate the "corpses" who had been elderberried in the cellar...
...barrage lifted, a battalion of infantry appeared as if by magic, and started their advance to the canal. They had been sheltering in houses, in caves, hedges and foxholes, and had been completely invisible. Now, 30 seconds after zero hour, they were spread out in Indian file, heading for the canal. I joined an assault platoon...
...Italian named Harold Lodovichetti, described himself on his business cards as "Promoter of Enthusiasm." The claque's present leader is a more conservative man, who lives in The Bronx and is known under the varied names of Schultz and Bennett. The Metropolitan switchboard keeps his telephone number on file for such artists as desire his services. And when the Met goes on tour, the resourceful Mr. Schultz-Bennett goes along to raise teams of local applauders...
...greatest pressure of all came from rank-&-file members of Mr. King's own Liberal Party. To Ottawa they had brought sobering news from every English-speaking province. In caucus, they told the Prime Minister that the people were outraged. The voters were asking: Does Quebec rule Canada...
...Submerged in Petticoats." "He would come [down to] breakfast not too annoyingly cheerful, drink his fruit juice, and glance over the morning paper, making running comments. . . . The rest of the family would file down - sisters, sisters-in-law, female friends - until 'two rows of smiling women' flanked the table. 'I am submerged in petticoats!' Wilson would say, smiling." Between meals, the women of the house rarely saw him. Either he had gone to classes or faculty meetings on his bicycle ("turning the pedals neither too fast nor too slowly, cleanly and precisely as he did everything...